{"id":2409,"date":"2009-11-06T00:28:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T05:28:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-06T00:28:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T00:28:45","slug":"lemgholy-sh-t-l-emg-mandom-has-a-theme-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lemgholy-sh-t-l-emg-mandom-has-a-theme-s\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Holy Sh*t!<\/em> Mandom Has a Theme Song!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/mandom45.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">The Soundtrack of My Would-Be Life<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve contemplated Rock Town Hall&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/11\/05\/the-mvjrp\">MVJRP<\/a><\/strong>, some of you may have recalled our examination of the series of legendary Japanase tv ads starring <strong>Charles Bronson<\/strong> for the deodorant\/talcum powder\/sex aid <strong>Mandom<\/strong>. Well, at least that&#8217;s where my mind wandered. An extensive YouTube search for further Mandom ads turned up this most-shocking find, a hit song (in Japan) centered around the concept of Mandom. Check it out&#8230;<em>after the jump!<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eCqa1dOBQTw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe artist is <strong>Jerry Wallace<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Wallace\" target=\"_blank\">about whom I&#8217;ve learned a little<\/a>. The song, as it was known and loved in Japan, is &#8220;Otoko no Sekai,&#8221; which I&#8217;ve read translates to &#8220;The World of the Man&#8221; but which was known to English-speaking fans as &#8220;Lovers of the World.&#8221; Can the sketchy facts really matter? This song and the accompanying &#8220;greatest hits&#8221; video say a lot about the world we live in, or should I say the world in which we can only hope to live&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soundtrack of My Would-Be Life As we&#8217;ve contemplated Rock Town Hall&#8217;s MVJRP, some of you may have recalled our examination of the series of legendary Japanase tv ads starring Charles Bronson for the deodorant\/talcum powder\/sex aid Mandom. Well, at least that&#8217;s where my mind wandered. An extensive YouTube search for further Mandom ads turned <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lemgholy-sh-t-l-emg-mandom-has-a-theme-s\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[207,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}